From Home to Hospital

Not a sight we want to see.  If the Hoy Head comes into Houton Pier on a Sunday it can only mean one thing; the ambulance is on board.  And sadly so it proved.  The patient will have been put into the ambulance on Flotta or Hoy and the boat comes into the Mainland at Houton.  Then the patient is transferred to another ambulance and driven into the Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall.

Depending on weather the transfer can take between 1.5 hrs and 3 hrs.

Let’s hope all is well.